Interesting @kdrum post on the decline of blogs that includes, among other things, this provocative theory for why Google let Reader die, and no other major company picked up RSS effectively. jabberwocking.com/why-have-blog-… 
My personal theory of the death of the blogosphere — which is different than the death of blogs, there are still lots of those — is that the blogosphere was built on short links that moved people around, not long essays, and when Twitter disaggregated that, the ecosystem died.
This is also why Substack isn't a replacement for the blogosphere, even if it does feel similar to the best blog posts: that curation and conversation function doesn't translate, both because of subscriber walls and because Twitter just does it better.
The sad thing is Twitter is just a much worse and much less healthy place for this kind of conversation and community than the blogosphere was, but here we are.
Related @tylercowen post here. He's talking specifically about econ Twitter vs econ blogs, and without wading into his whole debate, this point is very true, and an underrated problem of Twitter. Blogging was/is a much better platform for uncertainty: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Also @kdrum remains a master of the blogging form and you should all read him. jabberwocking.com
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